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Return of the Feral Cat Bill UT HB210

You thought a packed public meeting, thousands of letters, emails, and phone calls ended the madness and allowed understanding to prevail.

But no. The ugly bill is back. Utah HB210, allowing the shooting of suspected feral animals with legal impunity, has been restored in full, and it has made it past the House and into the Senate. If it isn't stopped, this odious piece of legislation will allow cat, dog, and pigeon shooting in any area of Utah where firearms can be discharged.

Believing an animal is feral does not make it ethical to shoot that animal.
Removing and killing cats is inhumane and ineffective for controlling feral populations.
Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) is the only ethical, effective, and cost-effective means of controlling feral colonies
We can't give a pass to those who would use pigeons or someone's cat for target practice, claiming later that they believed they were humanely shooting a feral animal.

We don't know what unnatural deeds are being done in Utah's lawmaking process to resurrect this bill, but it needs to be stopped, once and for all.